Letter from Almon Whiting Babbitt, 5 March 1850
Washington
Dear Sir
It is no doubt interesting
to you to be posted up upon all the inns
& outs at Washington. But things have
been so long [stemeatipell] & stood static
Quo that But little knews appears however
things seems to be coming to a head & the
Big thunder has been near all spent
except Websters that will be heard on
Tursday next & then I look for a comp
romis of some sort. My opinion is that
California will be [comited] as a state &
that Deseret & New Mexico will be organised
as a teritorys but it will be at the heel
of congress—I got a letter a few day
since from Erastus Snow he will be
here in a few days also John Taylor
& some others the Best of the Friends
saled from New Orleans some weeks
ago Snow & Taylor come here to
procure letters from this government to
their goverments where the missions are
assigned to them—My health is very
poor at present having ben bound for some
time under a [punishing] desease
called the Influensy many of the
